For companies looking to expand internationally, business networks can play a key role in identifying and implementing foreign market opportunities. Finding the right distribution or manufacturing partner or identifying an opportunity to acquire a chain of retail stores, for example, can influence the decision on which markets to enter. Business networks, however, are not the […]
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In 2009, French retailer Carrefour exited the Algerian market after finding its joint venture with a local partner to be unprofitable. Six years later, Carrefour re-entered the market with a different joint venture partner. In 2012, South Africa’s SAB Miller Plc. exited the Brazilian market, abandoning its distribution partnership. Three years later, it re-entered the […]
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The migration of nationals from less-developed countries, once thought of as ‘brain drain’, has been ‘re-framed’. A new concept, ‘brain circulation’, has taken root — and with it the idea that members of the diaspora can be ‘mobilised’ to benefit the economy back home. Interpersonal ties are increasingly seen as a way to diffuse […]
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